This large vacant lot along North 19th Street in Bismarck becomes the home of an enormous snow pile during the winter. We’ve had plenty of snow this winter, so the lot has been filling up over the past few months. In order to maximize the space, the snow is pushed into piles as it accumulates. These days there’s a surprise atop a couple of the piles if you look closely.

Some enterprising soul has put a couple of United States flags atop these snow piles. I don’t know if they were placed there as the snow was piled, or if some hiked out on top of the vast expanse of snow to place them. But they’re there…waving proudly.

Hopefully they don’t fall into the muck as the snow melts…whoever put them there, I hope they keep an eye on them. In any case, it was really neat to look over one afternoon and see the flags waving on top of a monument to the bountiful winter we’ve had so far!